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Domain name registration in South Africa

To register domain names in South Africa are simple and painless! Here are a few pointers to help you search for your domain name and to register it.

You can jump directly to get a free (no-obligation) online quote for domain name registration or first search for a name with the tool below.

Pick suitable domain names

Your domain name should match your company or product name, but if that is not possible or practical, consider to register domain names containing keywords you would like to attract visitors with:

Search engines "prefer" long domain names with hyphens between keywords, for example sell-cars-online-for-profit.co.za while people prefer short, memorable domain names like sellcarsonline.co.za ("co.za" if you are in South Africa)

General tips for picking a domain name

To brainstorm:

At a minimum secure your business or product name as a domain name

Try to include search phrases in your name - for ADDITIONAL domain names pointing to your primary (business) name

Register short and long versions of your name if necessary

Think about the "Yahoo" and "Google" domain names - be creative! :-)

Use other languages..."Ubuntu" is a good example

If you service a specific region, think about adding it to your domain name, for instance capetownwidgets.co.za

Make sure you can publish a home page immediately

Many service providers will register a domain name and point it to their own web site or some arbitrary under construction page, or even an advertisement for your ISP! You do not want this.

At a minimum you should publish your contact information (or at the very least your own "under-construction" page)...after all, if you go through the trouble of registering a domain name you might as well spend 10 minutes to make it work for you!

Be creative, use your page to:

publish an online business card (your paper card can point here)

A nice and clean page explaining who you are (your business)

A graphic of your logo / office / map / product / yourself / work

A brief introduction to your product, company or service

Use up to 300 words to tell your potential customers why they need to contact you

Etc...

What your domain name can do for you

Domain names are low-cost investments in "internet real-estate":

Protect your online identity, your company name and your brand

You can increase sales by marketing on the internet - either exclusively or to power-up your offline marketing efforts. (To help you do this, we give you a free 300+ page internet marketing course when you register your domain name).

Establish an identity and permanent home page for your business on the internet - no matter how many times you change ISPs.

Create a very cost effective "online business card" or "flyer" online advertisement.

Pull more visitors to your existing web site (an additional domain name pointing to an existing site is a neat trick to get more visitors from search engines.)

You have free hosting space provided by your ISP (or others - like Facebook) and would like a real domain name to point there.

Instantly create a web page as an online business card, single page advertisement, information leaflet or anything else with our easy to use online forms.

Manage your business from a web browser: Get started with a free 30 day trail of Google apps for business to secure your data and work from anywhere - with anyone.

Advertise your new web page immediately: We give you a complimentary Adwords voucher to the value of R 600 when you open your Google Adwords account - use it to pull prospects to your domain name immediately.

Domain registration price: R 199.00 Ex VAT per year.

Fast facts :

Publish a web home page immediately

Optional email

Convert to full web hosting at your leisure

Optional URL re-direction (if someone types in www.my-new-domain.co.za you can automatically send them to www.myOtherDomain.co.za)

No binding contracts or hidden costs.

What you get:

Included with your domain name registration, you get:

Formal registration of the domain - in your own name.

Exclusive use of your domain name for a year, with the option to renew indefinitely.

Easy to use online editor to update your home page as often as you like.